Travel

A walking shadow: Tracing Shakespeare in the Bard’s own country

The playwright may be long gone, but the Warwickshire market town of Stratford-upon-Avon keeps his spirit alive. Isabel Conway indulges in a little luxury and a lot of bardolatry in the 16th-century dramatist’s birthplace

Stratford-upon-Avon, one of the most popular tourist destinations in England: features the birthplace and gravesite of playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Picture: Getty